Senior Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Description

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

Join our IT Risk Management & Security team and play a key role in protecting a global enterprise’s most critical systems, accounts, and secrets. As a Privileged Access & Secrets Management Engineer, you will design, deploy, and operate HashiCorp Vault and privileged access capabilities that reduce cyber risk and enable secure, automated secrets delivery. This role offers the opportunity to help shape enterprise privileged access and secrets management capabilities while working across identity, automation, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and support HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments.

• Develop reusable patterns, standards, and onboarding guidance for HashiCorp Vault and secrets management across application, infrastructure, and automation teams.

• Support HashiCorp Vault integrations with CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, automation workflows, and application delivery processes.

• Enable secure injection, retrieval, rotation, and lifecycle management of secrets used by build, release, and runtime environments.

• Integrate PAM with enterprise applications, infrastructure and cloud platforms, and APIs.

• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and support production operations.

• Develop automation, standards, and operational processes that improve security, efficiency, and improve audit readiness.

Required Qualifications:

Primary: Hashi Corp vault

• 5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting HashiCorp Vault in on-premises environments, including integrations with CI/CD tools, automation frameworks, APIs, and application deployment workflows.

• Strong understanding of secrets lifecycle management including dynamic secrets, secrets engines, and auth methods for service accounts, workloads, applications, and non-human identities.

• Practical knowledge of privileged account management techniques: vaulting, password rotation, secrets management, least-privilege access, and service account security.

• Experience integrating security platforms with Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, cloud services, applications, and APIs.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt to change, and work effectively within large, global, matrixed organizations.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and explain technical concepts to diverse technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar technologies.

• Hands-on experience with identity platforms such as Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, cloud identity management, etc.

• Familiarity with ServiceNow for change and incident management and experience automating tasks with PowerShell or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with NIST, ITIL, or related security frameworks.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, Security+, or similar credentials.

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or other highly regulated industries.

• Knowledge of Zero Trust principles, cloud security, and modern identity security practices.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us-and start making your impact today.

Additional location(s) Compensation Information:

Required Skills:

Access Management Software, Access Management Software, Azure Active Directory (AD), Certificate Services, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Analytics, Cybersecurity Operations, Delivery of Security Applications, Design Applications, HashiCorp Vault, Identity Access Management (IAM), Incident Response, Information Assurance, Information Security, IT Security Architecture, Linux, Network Segmentation, Operational Technology (OT) Security, Red Hat Ansible, Security Analysis, Security Analytics, Security Controls, Security Evaluations, Security Fundamentals {+ 9 more}

Preferred Skills:

Automation, Automation Tools, Cloud Based Services

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

11/6/2026

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